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“The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses in Wall Street even among the professionals, who feel that they must take home some money every day, as though they were working for
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“Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.”
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“The first law of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“Walking thus, hour after hour, the senses keyed, one walks the flesh transparent. But no metaphor, transparent, or light as air, is adequate. The body is not made negligible, but paramount. Flesh is not annihilated but fulfilled. One is not bodiless, but essential body.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“The hardest thing of all to see is what is really there.”
― The Peregrine
― The Peregrine
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Gijs’s 2025 Year in Books
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